Train-order-delivering device.



G. A. KLEFSAAS.

TRAlN ORDER DELIVERING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-2% 1915.

Patented Jan. 1; 1918.

eorrnnn A. KLEFSAAS, or SANBORN, NORTH DAKOTA.

TRAIN-ORDER-DELIVEBING DEVICE.

Specification ofiLettersPatent. Patented Jan, 1, 1918.

Application filed August 20, 1915. SerialNo. 46,550.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, Go'rFRED A. KLnFsAAs,

a citizen of the. United States, residing at Sanborn, in the county ofBarnes, Stateof North Dakota, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Train-Order- Delivering Devices; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to train-order delivering devices.

The object of the invention is to provide a device of the characternamed embodying an improved construction for delivering to the desiredmembers of the crew of a passing train an order governing the runningthereof, such order through the instrumentality of the device beingdelivered in duplicate or triplicate as the case may be with certaintyand without danger to those removing the order from the device.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in thedetails of construction and in the arrangement and combination of partsto be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out inthe appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denote,corresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure l is aview in elevation of the invention;

Fig. 2, a plan view thereof;

Fig. 3, a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4, an enlarged longitudinal section through one of the hoopcarrying arms; and

Fig. 5, a section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings 10 indicates a standard or support having areduced upper end 11 upon which is rotatably mounted a pulley 12. Thispulley includes an extended hub portion 13 to which is secured aplurality of arms 14, four such arms being shown. Each of the arms 14 isprovided with a longitudinal recess 15 opening through the outer endthereof. Slidably engaged in said recess 15 is a. rod 16 which carrieson its outer end a U-shaped spring clip 17. Pivotally supported by eacharm 14 adjacent its inner end for movement in a plane parallel to thearm is a socket member 18. Secured to the standard 10 is a bracket 19which is. shaped to embrace the pulley l2 and terminates at its outerend in an upstanding-stop 20 for cooperation with;

the-socket members 18 in a manner that will hereinafter appear. Alsosecured to the standard 10 at a point opposite the connection of thestandard with the bracket 19 is a bracket 21 which carries a pluralityof guide pulleys 22, 23 and 24. Trained over the pulleys 22, 23 and 24is a cable 25 which is engaged around and has one end secured to thepulley 12. The other end of the cable 25 has secured thereto a weight 26which operates through the cable to rotate the pulley 12. Each of thearms 14 is adapted to detachably support an order hoop 27 including astem 28, the latter being engaged within the clip 17 and the socketmember 18. Each hoop 27 is provided with a clip 29 for holding thedesired train-order. Suitably secured to the upper end of the reducedportion 11 of the standard 10 is an arm 30 which carries at its free enda signal lantern 31, the arm 30 being so disposed that the lantern 31will lie directly above the next hoop to be removed from the device andthus illuminate the hoop in order that the desired member of the traincrew may readily grip same.

When the stems 28 are inserted in respective clips 17 and socket members18 the latter will of course be secured against rotation and one of saidsocket members will abut the stop 20 so as to prevent rotation of thepulley 12 under the influence of the weight 26. As soon as the hoop 27is re moved the related socket member 18 is free to rotate and thusbecome disengaged from the stop 20 when the weight 26 will rotate thepulley 12 to bring the next socket member 18 into engagement with thestop 20. This operation is repeated until the desired members of thecrew have been supplied with the order. It will of course be understoodthat the first hoop is removed by the engineer, and so on until thetrain has passed. By providing four arms 14 it is possible to supply thedesired order to the requisite members of the crew of a train having twoengines.

What is claimed is A train-order delivering device comprising a support,a member rotatably mounted on the support, radial arms. carried by themember, a stop immovable with respect to the member, a socket-membercarried by Qopies of this patent may be obtained for disengagedtherefrom, and means for rotating the rotatable member to bring thesocketmembers successively into engagement With the stop. 7

In testimony whereof I afi ix my signature 15 in the presence of tWoWitnesses.

GOTFRED A. KLEFSAAS. Witnesses i W. A. STEPHENSON, FRED E. STEPHAN.

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